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Re: THIS RESPONSE IS IN CAPS

Posted By: drtjdel
Date: Monday, 12 May 2008, at 9:45 p.m.

In Response To: Re: THIS RESPONSE IS IN CAPS (Kai)

> You are not stuck... you had a bad doctor that did the
> first acl - he put the tunnels in the wrong place (top
> reason for grafts failing by the way.) The second
> "shrinking" was a hoax.. never works.. they took
> your money ...

> Now write all that off to bad doctors and bad luck and
> start at the beginning.
> If you need a stable knee and an ACL than follow these
> steps -

> 1 - find a good os - one who does hundreds of ACLs per year
> and will do a patellar autograft

> spend lots of time on step 1. Do not accept someone just
> because they are the doc for a specific sports team or
> because they have a nice brochure. Get someone who does
> tons and ask for patient names that you can talk to.

> this is the step that has gotten you in trouble. Do it
> right this time.

> 2 - do what your knee's new best friend (the OS in step 1)
> says.

> There is no reason for you to accept a deficient knee. Good
> luck to you

Just my two cents again. If a doc truly does 'hundreds' of any one thing per year, he/she may be a bit quick to cut, unless the doc a a true super specialist, say a pediatric spine guy, burn reconstruction guy, etc. But you sare right. Experience counts, as does patient compliance.

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